KnowraWestern fictionLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to Western fiction, each with the reason it gives.All 8Broader topic 2Narrower topic 5Compared with 1Adventure fictionCompared with: Western fiction shares adventure’s action while grounding it in a distinct historical setting.Genre fictionBroader topic: Its setting and recurring conflicts form a recognizable genre distinct from the others.Dime novelBroader topic: Western adventures became one of the dime novel’s most recognizable genres.Bret HarteNarrower topic: Harte’s mining-camp stories helped establish western settings as popular literary material.Blood MeridianNarrower topic: Blood Meridian draws on Western settings while refusing the genre’s familiar heroic frontier myth.Cormac McCarthyNarrower topic: McCarthy reworks Western conventions rather than presenting the frontier as heroic myth.Zane GreyNarrower topic: Grey became one of the genre’s most widely read novelists.Louis L’AmourNarrower topic: L’Amour became one of the genre’s most widely read twentieth-century authors.